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n. - One of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief.

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  • Seeing sal with the new girl makes me want to call daimon and apologize.
  • A daimon is a divine sign given to an individual (Phaedrus, 242B) or it is
  • There is a being called a daimon who is either identical with theos or is the power or agency of theos (Homer).
  • Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context.
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